My first impression of Georgia was a lasting one. I arrived two years ago without knowing anything about the place, only to find that its streets were crawling with tigers, wolves, bears and hippos.

These aren’t metaphors I’ll have you know. The animals had literally escaped the zoo on the day I arrived, and the police and the army were having a competition to hunt them in the streets. Or “liquidate” them as the Ministry of Internal Affairs called it.

After a strange sequence of events, I find myself living here. And I can confirm that this former Soviet republic has been consistent in its levels of craziness. Which takes a lot, considering I arrived in a real-life version of Jumanji.

In the time that I’ve lived here, I’ve realised that I like Georgia because of her mysterious beauty, but I love her because of her madness.​I wrote about this for TheDifferent.tv. You can read it here: www.thedifferent.tv/the-tiger-of-tbilisi.

Women’s rights groups march through the streets of Tbilisi in a counter-demonstration to a recent far-right march. ​The protest was held in response after Tatia Dolidze - who criticised the xenophobic demonstrations - was threatened with sexual violence by the organisers of the nationalists’ march.

Last night, thousands attended an anti-immigration protest march through the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. The rally was supported by several conservative and nationalistic groups. Reportedly, one of their demands is to close nightclubs "owned by Arabs and Iranians".